Homestead Furniture Making Contest

Homestead Furniture Making Contest
Date	January 17, 2007 - January 20, 2007
Followed by	Wonders of the World
Page last updated on July 16, 2025

Homestead Furniture Making Contest was a contest that was held from January 17, 2007, to January 20, 2007. Players were given the task of furnishing Roblox's new starter place, the Happy Home in Robloxia. It is noteworthy for being the first ever contest and event on Roblox.

Background

The contest was first announced by Shedletsky on the Roblox Blog on January 17, 2007. Submissions would be taken in via models through the forums along with a brief description of what the contestant had developed. All winning models would be published into the Toolbox under the newly created "Furniture" tab.

Judging criteria

The contestants would receive points based on their creativity, construction, attention to detail, and scale. Contestants would be awarded additional points if they provided a brief description of how to publish a model in the contest's thread.

Winners and Rewards

By January 18, 2007, eight users had submitted 38 models, with 30 of them being added into the Toolbox.

By the deadline, nine players had been chosen as the grand prize winners of the contest with each of them being given a one-time customized avatar of their choice, each users submissions being pictured below.

Top row: Drwaffles (left), Rocks25 (middle), ToaZuku (right)
Middle row: Cadi (left), Koopa (middle), Anaminus (right)
Bottom row: miked (left), PoliceModlers (middle), MrDoomBringer (right)

Avatar Submissions

Some rules for submitting a Figure model were no invisible parts, no adding, removing, or resizing any parts, and no edits to the health bar. Submissions were to be uploaded to the Model Library, and submitted to Shedletsky in direct messages. Most of these models, including earlier versions, can be found on the Roblox Library or in user inventories.

Despite the fact that the primary purpose of the avatars were to provide each winner with body colors and a classic t-shirt, miked and Cadi decided to add faces to their own avatars. Miked submitted his avatar with 0.3 reflectance on it to give a golden effect. Miked accidentally submitted his Figure unlocked, and so people were able to use building tools to pull his character apart in-game. Anaminus also accidentally left theirs unlocked in earlier iterations of their submission. Miked's Figure submission also had secret backdoor scripts in the torso disguised as decals. It is unknown if the script even worked.

Rocks25 would submit his avatar translucent. PoliceModlers would do something similar with the arms, and apply .2 reflectance to the head. He would also cover the head with an image on all sides. Similarly to Miked and Cadi, ToaZuku and PoliceModlers decided to add images to the head. It also appears that Anaminus helped ToaZuku with creating their submission.

Despite Cadi creating a model with just a custom face, Cadi's figure may had never been submitted. Most instances of the model did not contain a humanoid, and fell apart upon spawning in. Upon asking a user who owned the Cadi account, they did not appear to have any messages sent to Shedletsky about the Figure submission.

Links to all known submissions, including earlier versions, can be found below:

DrWaffles:

• DrWaffles' Submission
• Earlier Version

Rocks25:

• Rocks25's Submission

ToaZuku:

• ToaZuku's Submission
• Ninth Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
• Eighth Early Version
• Seventh Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
• Sixth Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
• Fifth Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
• Fourth Early Version
• Third Early Version
• Second Early Version (Chestplate was added)
• Early Version, notably without decals

Cadi:

• Cadi's Finalized Figure (Not Submitted)

Koopa:

• Koopa's Submission

Anaminus:

• Anaminus' Submission
• Earlier Version (With Locked Parts)
• Earlier Version

Miked:

• Miked's Submission
• Earlier Model (Claims to be locked)
• Earlier Version
• Even Earlier Version
• Earliest Version

PoliceModlers:

• PoliceModlers' Submission
• Earlier Version
• Possibly Earlier Version

MrDoomBringer:

• MrDoomBringer's Submission
• Earlier Version

Gallery

Image of Miked's early avatar, seen in a video.

In-Game image of Miked wearing his figure

Old thumbnail of Miked's profile using the new avatar.

Old thumbnail of ToaZuku's avatar.

MrDoomBringer's Thumbnail of his avatar submission

DrWaffles' thumbnail of his avatar submission.

Image used on Anaminus' Torso

Image used on PoliceModlers's Face

Cadi's Face Texture

Miked's Face

Miked's Shirt

Trivia

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miked's widescreen TV.

• When announcing the winners, Shedletsky said that his personal favorite winning model of the contest was miked’s widescreen TV which had a working remote that could surf 10 different channels with comedic Roblox stories.
• The blog post announcing the contest contained the first ever mention of Happy Home in Robloxia.
• Since winners were given the opportunity to customize their own avatars, this was considered unique as it was unattainable at the time.
• Miked originally had a model of a "black figure with white skeleton decals all over", but due to issues with images loading in multiplayer at the time, he decided to instead make his avatar a "24K golden robot" with the Superman logo ("S" replaced with an "M").
  • Miked also considered putting his face and shirt decals on the back of his model, so that it appeared he was walking backwards.
• Most of the original Figure submissions that were accepted can be found in Are92's museum game or on the public Library.
  • A leaked version of Are92's museum was found in free models in 2021, where the rest of the original avatar submissions were found. It can be verified to be real based on Miked's previous comment about his figure being unlocked, and other similar details.
  • A model of the found avatar submissions were reuploaded by Dynabroth/VoxelizedBits and can be obtained on the Library.
• PoliceModlers also went by Jacobxxduel, and in modern day, Reverse_Polarity Reverse_Polarity is a notable creator or influencer verified by Roblox Corporation. Learn more..

External links

• Homestead Furniture Contest Submissions Page in the Roblox Forum Archive